{"id":152962,"date":"2015-05-20T21:13:27","date_gmt":"2015-05-20T21:13:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/?p=152962"},"modified":"2015-05-20T21:13:27","modified_gmt":"2015-05-20T21:13:27","slug":"bds-movement-hijacked-liberal-zionists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/bds-movement-hijacked-liberal-zionists\/","title":{"rendered":"Has the BDS Movement been hijacked by Liberal Zionists?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Palestinian civil society thinks that calling for \u201cBoycott, Divestment and Sanctions\u201d (BDS) represents a creative breakthrough to shake off the burden of Israel\u2019s occupation regime in historic Palestine. Historically, resistance to Zionist intrusion into Palestine can be traced back to the mid-1920s. So far, however, all strategies have failed both before and after the establishment of the State of Israel.<\/p>\n<p>The British colonial Mandate regime subdued the Arab revolt of 1936-1939 and killed its leader Izz ad-Din al-Qassam. In his memory, the Palestinian resistance movement Hamas established in 1991 the \u201cAl-Qassam Brigades\u201d tasked to resist further Israeli land theft and the strangulation of Palestinians. The strategy of \u201carmed struggle\u201d pursued by the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), was abandoned after the organisation was expelled from Lebanon in 1982 and scattered to the four winds.<\/p>\n<p>Slowly but surely, the PLO adopted a more realistic approach that led \u2013 besides the proclamation of the State of Palestine \u2013 to the recognition of the State of Israel in Algiers on 15 November 1988, although Israel\u2019s right-wing government under Yitzhak Shamir didn\u2019t relish to be recognized by, what he <a href=\"https:\/\/books.google.com.ph\/books?id=WwEMtRm6KVgC&amp;pg=PA219&amp;dq=shamir+plo+terrorist+organization&amp;hl=en&amp;sa=X&amp;ei=IbJcVbDyDubcmAWWpYDICg&amp;ved=0CDMQ6AEwBA#v=onepage&amp;q=shamir%20plo%20terrorist%20organization&amp;f=false\">dubbed<\/a>, a \u201cterror organization\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/dissidentvoice.org\/2015\/05\/has-the-bds-movement-been-hijacked-by-liberal-zionists\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Palestinian civil society thinks that calling for \u201cBoycott, Divestment and Sanctions\u201d (BDS) represents a creative breakthrough to shake off the burden of Israel\u2019s occupation regime in historic Palestine. Historically, resistance to Zionist intrusion into Palestine can be traced back to the mid-1920s. So far, however, all strategies have failed both before and after the establishment [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-152962","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152962","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=152962"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152962\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=152962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=152962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=152962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}